Oh, holy Xenu’s toenail, Victoria Jackson is a raving loon. I’m now sorry I didn’t stick around for her whackery at the tea party I attended (video right), but her essay on conservative site Big Hollywood more than makes up for it, though it did produce more queasiness than the rightwinger’s grilled meat on high tax wheat bread. Here’s her deep thoughts on Obama’s health plan:

I’d been wondering why the liberals are so passionate about this Health Care thing. It couldn’t be because they actually care about sick, poor people. If they did, they would visit hospitals, and give ten percent of their gross salaries to Compassion International and World Vision, like us stupid church go-ers do. Biden gave $ 62 to charity last year.

No, there’s gotta be a catch. I guess this question was sitting in my brain and during my sleep, my brain was working on it, because when I suddenly awoke at 3 a.m. I had the answer.

Euthanasia!

Social Security and Medicare are broke. Baby boomers, like me, are getting old and will soon be asking for it. Socialized medicine makes people die. You stand in a long, long line with a breast lump, clogged artery, or sharp pencil stuck in your eye, and someone like the DMV person, who can’t speak English, has chewing gum, an attitiude, really long fake nails that curl up at the end, and is talking on a cell phone, enjoying their power trip moment, is finally face to face with you. They mumble something incoherent about paperwork. You die. One less person in line for Social Security and Medicare!

Ok, I knew I’d regret it, but ….I went to the link and read…the last line, referring to someone who obviously is smarter than she is, “ignorance is bliss,” after a page spouting as many of the lies about Obama and health care as she could squeeze in…

And can somebody tell me why people like her are still ranting about a Fairness Doctrine that’s been dead since, like, Reagan?
(and of course, never had anything to do with “censorship,”, fair or unfair).
Help – I may have to turn on American’s Funniest Videos to wash that hate out of my brain.

I’d be willing to bet that most churchgoers don’t give 10 percent of their income to charity, although they may give it to their churches, where it’s used for everything including whatever charities those churches support. (If they did give that much to charity, a lot of food banks and homeless shelters would be in much better shape.)

To be fair to Dennis Miller, he’s a self-proclaimed libertarian. Though in practice, his views on foreign policy tend more towards neo-fascism. Apparently 9/11 made him go all “Kill all the scary brown people.”

I thought it would be lower than that. I think Mormons are the best givers because the church actually knows how much you make in most cases and there is a lot or pressure to anti-up. Most church goers are less than one percenters according to an article from our church newletter a couple of years ago. Most of that money goes for church upkeep; utilities, grounds, maintenance, etc. and of course salaries. It is amazing how little actually goes to help parishioners and missions.

Mormons are still a small % of Americans, although you’d never know it by some of the economic power they have in the western states.

I gave up on the Catholic church over half a century ago, but fell to new depths of disgust when they couldn’t even send anyone to visit my senile father (at the family’s request) who had attended the church for probably 50 years, and that didn’t even cost them any money.

More likely an actuary explained to her how private insurance companies will be able to make even more profits dumping all risky patients from their coverage by tightening underwriting and/or trimming coverage. They may insure fewer patients, but if the profit margin is greater per patient then the trade off is not terrible.

With a public option, private health insurance companies will be able to cherry pick who they want to insure and to what extent. The public option plan will be compelled to take those patients whose health profiles pose higher risks and thus higher expense. If the public health plan has too many unhealthy patients enrolled, then eventually it may become unaffordable while the private insurance plans prosper.

The public option plan is vastly inferior to a universal single payer plan. The great danger is that the joint conferees will draft a public option plan that ensures its demise over time. In fact, I’m cynical enough to bet that that is exactly what will happen.

I’d be willing to bet that most churchgoers don’t give 10 percent of their income to charity, although they may give it to their churches, where it’s used for everything including whatever charities those churches support. (If they did give that much to charity, a lot of food banks and homeless shelters would be in much better shape.)

Got some news for ya: Just for clarity’s sake, a lot, and I mean a lot of food panrtries operate out of churches. I’m sort of an expert on this, as I’ve worked in the food banking “business” (it wasn’t intende to be that way) for over 20 years now.

Social Security and Medicare are broke. Baby boomers, like me, are getting old and will soon be asking for it. Socialized medicine makes people die. You stand in a long, long line with a breast lump, clogged artery, or sharp pencil stuck in your eye, and someone like the DMV person, who can’t speak English, has chewing gum, an attitiude, really long fake nails that curl up at the end, and is talking on a cell phone, enjoying their power trip moment, is finally face to face with you. They mumble something incoherent about paperwork. You die. One less person in line for Social Security and Medicare!

If the above isn’t a classic case of projection, I don’t know what is! This may be how Victoria Jackson would behave if she had a job doing patient intake for the injured. It certainly fits the stereotype that Republicans like to push about any bureaucratic service for the vulnerable. Lifted straight from the “welfare queen” meme.